Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A squabble; a row; a disturbance: as, to kick up a bobbery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Low A squabble; a tumult; a commotion; a noisy disturbance.
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- noun dated A
squabble ; atumult ; a noisydisturbance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Never was a 'bobbery' more delightful than that which we have just succeeded in 'kicking up' all around about Boston Common.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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She was also full of sage counsel, advising marriage with a warm girl having "nice things at her -- nice lands and pigs and things" -- as a ready way to square the "bobbery" of thirty years ago at Ballawhaine.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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It makes me sick of myself, to make such a fash and bobbery over a rotten end of an old nursery yarn, not worth spitting on when done.
Vailima Letters 2005
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How she was the home of lies and flies, the grave of reputation, the refuge of the remittance man and the bad egg; the land of the unexpected pest, but never the unexpected blessing; of sunstroke and fever; scandals and broken careers; snobbery, bobbery, and highway robbery.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley
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The stables were a great point, and the bobbery pack, which hunt pig for five months all through the winter, accounted in one season for something like nineteen full-grown boar, ten tuskers, and nine sows.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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Still, observation I was out to get, so, spreading my bobbery pack, I worked closer and closer.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919 Various
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The latter was the individual who fell, who played the copperhead in Eden, and has been kicking up such a bobbery ever since.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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But BULL has learned the wisdom of not kicking up a bobbery.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various
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Well, Ben once got into a great frolic ashore, and kicked up such a bobbery that the watchman clapped him in limbo for the night; and the justice next morning gave him such a clapper-clawing with his tongue, and bore down upon him so hard with his
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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He had talked to her during the whole of dinner the night before about jackal-hunting with a bobbery pack -- not at all an elevated mind.
The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan
qms commented on the word bobbery
Thus endeth a season of bobbery
Replete with conspicuous daubery.
The master of squabbles
Now gathers the baubles.
Prepare for a circus of jobbery.
December 3, 2016